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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 309, 5 February 1848, Page 194

Mbhemet Ah and Egyptian Parents.—Mehemet Ali lately ordered that forty .youths belonging to the best families of Alexandria should be sent to Europe at his expense, for the purpose of completing their education ; but the parents were so unwilling to allow their children to visit the country of the Franks, that many of them bribed poor persons to furnish them with boys, whom they delivered to the authorities as their own children. — Leech Mercury. Fishing. — An American paper describes a mode of fishing in small streams in Kentucky, during low water. It is termed " sledge hammering," and is practised by a man who wades about with a sledge hammer on his shoulder, and gives a violent blow with a hammer to every rock which he approaches. The stunned fish rise from beneath the rock to the surface, and are caught in a basket. Tolls. — A turnpike toll taker is not legally bound to give change for a sovereign, or other large coin tendered him, to take the toll out of it;, but it is the duty of the party passing the gate to be provided with the proper sum payable. Neither is the keeper of a post-office bound to give change to a person tendering a sovereign to pay a letter out of it. The people qjfche State of Vermont have resolved that no licenstffthall be granted for the sale of intoxicating drinks, except for medicinal purposes.